Elizabeth
Seng
Professor of Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
223 Rousso Building
Resnick campus
1165 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461
Dr. Seng's research aims to harness the power of behavior change to improve the lives of people living with migraine disease. Her federally-funded lab studies psychological and social factors that facilitate or interfere with management of headache and migraine disorders and develops both individual and highly-scalable interventions to improve the quality of life of people living with migraine disease.
Her lab accepts students with the following areas of interest: headache disorders, chronic pain, cognition (e.g., neuropsychology), sleep, stress, treatment adherence, quantitative methods and measurement, ecological momentary assessment and behavioral randomized clinical trials.
Her teaching interests are health psychology, statistics and psychometrics, and cognitive assessment.
For an overview of behavioral migraine management, please see:
Seng EK, Martin P, Houle TT. Lifestyle factors and migraine. Lancet Neurol. 2022;21(10):911-921. DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(22)00211-3.
See below additional recent publications selected to demonstrate work in which students have been involved in my lab; for more please see pubmed bibliography:
Getz M, Charleston L, Armand C, Willis A, Seng EK. Perceived discrimination and migraine-specific quality of life: a cross-sectional survey study in a Black/African American sample. Headache. 2025. DOI: 10.111/head.14970.
Seng EK, Hill J, Reeder AK, Visvanathan P, Wells RE, Lipton RB, Minen M, Shallcross AJ. Feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of remote-delivered abbreviated mindfulness-based cognitive therapy interventions for patients with migraine and depressive symptoms. Headache. 2025 Apr;65(4):545-557.
Seng EK, Muenzel EJ, Shapiro RE, Buse DC, Reed ML, Zagar AJ, Ashina S, Hutchinson S, Nicholson RA, Lipton RB. Development of the Migraine-Related Stigma (MiRS) Questionnaire: Results of the OVERCOME (US) Study. Headache. 2025 Feb;65(2):269-279.
Seng EK, Burish MJ, Fenton BT, Schindler EAD, Zhou B, Phadke MA, Skanderson M, Best R, Lipton RB, Sico JJ. Characteristics of men and women with medically diagnosed cluster headache in a national integrated healthcare system: A Veterans Health Administration cohort study. Headache. 2024 Nov-Dec;64(10):1273-1284.
Marzouk M, Buse K, Karvounides D, Powers S, Seng EK. Not their fault: Mental health characteristics of parents with migraine and the migraine status of their children. Headache. 2024 Oct;64(9):1143-1145.
Best R, Ozmeral A, Grinberg AS, Smitherman TA, Seng EK. Pain acceptance as a change mechanism for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Migraine. J Behav Med. 2024; 47(3):471-482.
Kruse J., Seng EK. Cognitive appraisal in a randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for patients with migraine. Headache. 2023; 63(10):1403-1411. DOI: 10.111/head.14627.
Butler N, Gosnell I, Korn TG, Nicholson RA, Robbins MS, Seng EK. Lifetime history of an anxiety or depression disorder and adherence to medications used for the acute treatment of migraine. Headache. 2023; 63(3):368.386. DOI: 10.111/head.14477.
Seng EK, Shapiro RE, Buse DC, Robbins MS, Lipton RB, Parker A. The unique role of Stigma in migraine-related disability and quality of life. Headache. 2022; 62(10):1354-1364. DOI: 10/1111/head.14401.
Parker A, Sebrow L, Foley FF, Hirky EL, Robbins MS, Trost Z, Seng EK. Injustice, quality of life, and psychiatric symptoms in people with migraine. Rehab Psych. 2023; 68(1):77-90. DOI: 10.1037/rep0000476.
Seng EK, Fenton B, Wang K, Lipton RB, Ney J, Damush TM, Grinberg AS, Skanderson M, Sico JJ. Frequency, demographics, comorbidities, and healthcare utilization by veterans with migraine: a VA nationwide cohort study. Neurology. 2022. Sepg;99(18):e1979-e1992. DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200888.
Klepper J, Sebrow L, Rosen N, Seng EK. Cogniphobia and neuropsychological functioning in migraine. Neuropsychology. 2022 Jul;36(5):433-442. DOI: 10.1037/neu0000808.
Seng EK, Gosnell I, Sutton L, Grinberg AS. Behavioral management of episodic migraine: maintaining a healthy consistent lifestyle. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2022. Mar;26(3):247-252. DOI: 10.1007/s11916.
Seng EK, Conway AB, Grinberg AS, Patel ZS, Marzouk M, Rosenberg L, Metts C, Day MA, Minen MT, Buse DC, Lipton RB. Response to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy differs between chronic and episodic migraine. Neurol Clin Pract 2021; 11(3): 194-205. DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000984.
Patel ZS, Hoffman LK, Sutton L, Cohen SR, Lowes MA, Seng EK. The patient experience of pain in hidradenitis suppurativa. Brit J Dermatol. 2020; 183(2):401-401. DOI: 10.111/bjd.19016.
223 Rousso Building
Resnick campus
1165 Morris Park Ave
Bronx, NY 10461